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Post by bswiv on Jul 1, 2023 16:39:08 GMT -5
You guys like this sort of stuff, and it does, in a way fit in with hunting.......and if you want we can let it segway into fishing too.
So..............list of everything you've personally cleaned......not shot......cleaned.
There's no prize......but it will be interesting.
I'll start making a list here and get back to you, as it'll take a while. So somebody start.
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Post by pinman on Jul 1, 2023 17:49:26 GMT -5
You guys like this sort of stuff, and it does, in a way fit in with hunting.......and if you want we can let it segway into fishing too. So..............list of everything you've personally cleaned......not shot......cleaned. There's no prize......but it will be interesting. I'll start making a list here and get back to you, as it'll take a while. So somebody start. I think you should make it "the most unusual fish or animal you have cleaned" |
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Post by bswiv on Jul 1, 2023 18:28:30 GMT -5
You guys like this sort of stuff, and it does, in a way fit in with hunting.......and if you want we can let it segway into fishing too. So..............list of everything you've personally cleaned......not shot......cleaned. There's no prize......but it will be interesting. I'll start making a list here and get back to you, as it'll take a while. So somebody start. I think you should make it "the most unusual fish or animal you have cleaned" Run with that! |
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Post by wayvis on Jul 1, 2023 18:34:59 GMT -5
For a Florid boy when I was in Mississippi, I cleaned a muskrat and tried to eat it. Not that good.  |
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Post by pinman on Jul 1, 2023 18:35:34 GMT -5
Well I have never cleaned anything other than run of the mill fish, fowl, and game. Maybe someone on here has cleaned a Kangaroo or something (I have eaten Kangaroo)
Edit; I guess most exotic for being a Floridian was cleaning Sandhill Cranes in SK
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Post by 4ward on Jul 1, 2023 20:06:43 GMT -5
My buddy (taxidermist)was doing a full body mount of a 300# Tiger for a local camp. It was captive its whole life, and FAT.
He called me to help for a couple days because he knew I was competent with a knife. I was turning the paws out with an exacto knife blade, covered in the most god awful cat grease. I don’t even have a picture of the nasty thing, It came out beautifully but, I just wanted to forget about it.
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Post by joekat46 on Jul 2, 2023 5:28:54 GMT -5
Probably a groundhog. Never been one of the "if you shoot it you must eat it" guys but someone said ground hog was good. It went in a Crock Pot and I don't remember if it was good or not. Never cleaned another one. There is a long running group called "Crow Busters". They will give crow recipes for the shoot it you must eat it guys. Haven't tried crow either and I've shot plenty of them. Years ago an old mentor told me "the buzzards need to eat to". Somethings are just meant to be left for the buzzards.
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Post by bswiv on Jul 2, 2023 6:41:24 GMT -5
An ostrich and a couple of emu......
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Post by bridgeman213 on Jul 2, 2023 7:35:10 GMT -5
Friend of mine hit a bear a tad too far back. 3 friggen times. Very nasty
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Post by swampdog on Jul 2, 2023 8:47:03 GMT -5
One armadillo and one raccoon. I think the skinning and preparation ruined the taste😉
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Post by james243 on Jul 2, 2023 10:29:19 GMT -5
I have cleaned and eaten crow, just one, once.
I have two moles in my freezer that the dog caught, which I plan on skinning and preserving the hide.
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Post by bswiv on Jul 2, 2023 11:11:27 GMT -5
One armadillo and one raccoon. I think the skinning and preparation ruined the taste😉 Lots of armadillo when young..... always thought they were good....like small hog. |
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Post by pinman on Jul 2, 2023 11:41:41 GMT -5
I dont think anyone will top 4Ward....
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Post by bswiv on Jul 2, 2023 12:49:14 GMT -5
I dont think anyone will top 4Ward.... That is a odd one for sure................... |
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Post by 4ward on Jul 2, 2023 13:36:00 GMT -5
I was just searching and found where someone posted a video clip of it.
It was much bigger in reality, got thinned down to fit the foam he came up with.
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Post by bswiv on Jul 2, 2023 16:12:41 GMT -5
I was just searching and found where someone posted a video clip of it. It was much bigger in reality, got thinned down to fit the foam he came up with. Is that Tony's in Hawthorne? It's closed now............... |
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Post by 4ward on Jul 2, 2023 16:26:03 GMT -5
No sir, it’s a camp over in High Springs.
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Post by bullfrog on Jul 2, 2023 19:17:31 GMT -5
A beaver I killed on a depredation hunt. I had no intent to eat it when I killed it.
The meat actually looked delicious. But I was in camp without a good knife or sharpener and I just couldn’t get it finished. I had shot the beaver late in the night and I got so aggravated trying to clean its fat with a dull knife that I gave up and dumped it. It was very blubbery. But clean looking and smelling. I would have been glad to fry it up and try it. It was light pink.
I’ve tried to clean coon twice and couldn’t stop gagging either time.
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Post by altuck on Jul 2, 2023 20:09:39 GMT -5
Sold a fellow a couple of goats one time. I watched while he did the following;
1 slit throat and hold up by rear legs to bleed out.
2. throw on fire his wife had built
3. burn all hair off leaving golden brown skin, hit horns and hooves until fall off.
4 lay goat on blanket where wife rubs all over to remove any leftover hair.
5 place goat in trunk and take home to finish cutting up.
He was from Nigeria and that was how they did it at home, interesting to watch but I passed on trying it.
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Post by altuck on Jul 2, 2023 20:17:06 GMT -5
In my younger years I trapped and sold a lot of coon an possum and sold down in the "quarters"
Had to leave one front foot on to tell which was which.
2 bucks for a possum and 3.5 for a coon. 5 bucks for the hide.
Good money for a kid.
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Post by joekat46 on Jul 3, 2023 5:12:29 GMT -5
Be great if more people trapped the raccoons again. They are murder on turkey nest.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Jul 3, 2023 8:07:11 GMT -5
A long time ago, I cleaned and ate gopher, hint, do not eat the same day you butcher it. It's hard to get the smell off your hands. It is very good smothered in gravy like country fried steak.
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Post by anumber1 on Jul 3, 2023 8:26:07 GMT -5
possum, trapped (drown set) and some curlew.
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Post by meateater on Jul 3, 2023 11:54:31 GMT -5
i have tried just about everything but for a florida animal thats out of this world a armadillo slow cooked on a set it and forget it rotisserie for 4 hours is hard to beat. baste it with butter and garlic every 30 minutes so freaking good puts snipe squirrel duck to shame as far as taste. gut it wash it really good salt and pepper, whatever spices you like and cook that sucker shell on. thats it gonna take next one i see home with me.
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Post by johnnybandit on Jul 3, 2023 19:33:40 GMT -5
I cleaned and cooked a Nutria.... It was not good.....
Way back in the 1980's When I was first in the wholesale meat business, I had a second part time job at a small meat market and customer slaughter place... There was a guy that had Llamas. HE would bring us one sometimes....
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Post by oldbastard on Jul 4, 2023 6:53:37 GMT -5
Be great if more people trapped the raccoons again. They are murder on turkey nest. so what, raccoons have a right to eat and exist. |
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Post by shodog on Jul 4, 2023 7:47:20 GMT -5
I shot a bobcat last year. Brought it home to clean and my son insisted we eat it. It skinned very easy and the meat looked good but did have a little gamey smell. The flavor was awful. Tasted like meat marinated with tarsal gland and cat piss. Then I screwed up tanning the pelt. The hair on the face slipped. The rest of the body came out okay. It'll be the last one I kill. Nearly a total waste.
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Post by joekat46 on Jul 4, 2023 10:42:11 GMT -5
Be great if more people trapped the raccoons again. They are murder on turkey nest. so what, raccoons have a right to eat and exist. Not if they raid 🦃 nest . Pfft! |
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Post by bottom feeder on Jul 4, 2023 14:25:06 GMT -5
We killed a porcupine cleaned it and ate it when I was camping with the boy scouts. We ate a few rattlesnakes and fish we caught as well. North central Pennsylvania back in the 60s.
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Post by gator4ever on Jul 4, 2023 14:43:39 GMT -5
OK this was not a game animal but defnitely different.
My uncle managed what used to be Florida Ranch on US27 it was a pure bred Brahama operation. We had our kennel there were kept around 18 deer hounds. Every summer when the thinderstorms came a bull or a cow or 2 or 3 of them would get hit by lightning. When one of these 1200 to 1800lb beasts would get hit by lighting my uncle would call me.
We would use 6 to 8 knnifes, an axe, a hatchet couple of machetes sharpening stone some chains and a forklift. No matter how green the meat was we would save it.
Nasty as hell it would gag a maggot. But them dogs would get so fit and shiny.
To this day 50 years after the fact i can still smell the stank.
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